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Another of my colleagues, this time Andrea Valboni in Italy, has just written about an interesting project kicking off there to extend the Apache POI Java libraries to include OpenXML. Andrea writes Microsoft and Sourcesense, a company delivering consultancy...
Novell's Kevin Barney blogs about the availability and benefits of the Office Open XML/OpenDocument format translators for presentations and spreadsheets in Novell's Open PR blog :- You know they’ve been in the works, but the Office Open XML/OpenDocument...
Yesterday I noted that the Office Binary <-> OpenXML translator project had started on SourceForge. Brian Jones has now also blogged about this but adds some really interesting extra details. 1. Ecma " will modify DIS 29500 to include an informative...
The following milestones are planned in the Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) Translator to Open XML project Milestone 0 (February 15th, 2008): Launching the project on SourceForge outline of the anatomy of binary Office documents (Compound file format, streams...
China's UOF (Uniform Office Format) is an emerging standard being developed by the Chinese Office Software Work Group (COSWG), led by the China Electronics Standard Institute (CESI), the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), major suppliers of Chinese...
This video's really worth watching - it shows OpenXML support (both read and write) on a Nokia E61i with Quickoffice .
A while ago I posted some screenshots showing OpenXML in Apple's iWork '08. My colleague Jean-Christophe Cimetiere has gone one better and posted a video ... he also posted a video of the OpenXML experience on the iPhone ...
I just saw Eric Lai's article on Computerworld about IBM's support for OpenXML . Nobody has invested more to defeat Microsoft Corp. 's Open XML document format than IBM Corp. So why is IBM supporting Open XML in a handful of its products? ... The software...
Brian Jones provides the text of one of Ecma's responses to the comments received from National Standards Bodies to DIS29500 that pertain to mapping from the binary formats to OpenXML:- We believe that Interoperability between applications conforming...
Brian Jones carries the news that Microsoft will make the Binary Formats (.doc; .xls; .ppt) directly available as a download on the Microsoft web site and, by February 15 2008, will include them under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise . Microsoft...
Another TechED OpenXML related announcement Altova XMLSpy Now Supports New ECMA Office Open XML File Formats June 4, 2007; 05:51 AM Altova ( http://www.altova.com ), creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools...
Monday's press release about expanding customers interoperability options had two elements:- a new open source project to enable translation between the emerging Chinese UOF standard. an new beta of the existing open source translator that adds PowerPoint...
DIN 's Information Technology Standardization Committee's newly formed 'Translation of Document Formats' working group has started work to create an in-depth Technical Report detailing how to translate between the two document standards...
Ecma have issued a press release announcing The JTC 1 Secretariat informed Ecma International today that Office Open XML will move immediately to the next phase of the ISO/IEC’s review of the Ecma standard. The JTC 1 Secretariat issued the 5-month...
I was just looking at Karel De Vriendt's ODEF (Open Document Exchange Formats) Workshop Conclusions presentation. It's very interesing and rather encouraging as there's some much needed pragmatism being injected into the debate. I hope some...
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